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Pressure Waves:
Role playing the end of the world
DATE
Thursday 12 June 2025
TIME7pm - 8pm
LOCATION
37 Tanner Row
SUITABLE FOREveryone
In 1983, civil servants gathered to role play the descent into world war and nuclear conflict. Taking the place of senior politicians, their responses scripted imagined reactions and decisions, providing an insight into the psychological impact of this ultimate responsibility.
That exercise, WINTEX-CIMEX, is held in the National Archives. Pressure Waves will consider the WINTEX-CIMEX document within both the political context of the time and in reflection of our current global situation.
Join us for dramatised extracts from the WINTEX-CIMEX document and an expert discussion panel.
This event is part of York Festival of Ideas and is staged as part of ‘Forewarned is Forearmed’ marking the centenary of the Royal Observer Corps.
Photo: The operations room at 20 Group Control (York’s Cold War Bunker) where the pattern of nuclear war would be tracked and analysed, and from where government, military and civilian authorities would be notified.
How to book
Tickets are free but you must book your place using the above button. The event will be taking place at English Heritage York office at 37 Tanner Row, York, YO1 6WP.